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The Spectacle Blog
So Congressman Nick Joe Rahall (D-WV) made a rookie mistake (for a guy who has been around as long as he has). He went off-prompter. And here is what he delivered:
“Climate change - to deny it exists, to just put your head in the sand and, ‘oh no, it doesn’t exist, what are you talking about,’ is about like standing on the floor of Macy’s during the month of December and claiming Santa Claus doesn’t exist. Come on, get real.”
Let’s stipulate that by this Rahall means the Man-made warming theory, for which “climate change” has become the more politically utilitarian shorthand since “global warming” faded. Because no one actually denies climate change. That’s what it does. Always has, always will.
Ok. The hucksters pushing the myth of a “stable climate” before the horrors of industrial man really are climate change deniers. But anyway…
Rahall’s got a point. “Climate” was after all, trotted out as the latest excuse, the Plan B, or X, Y or Z by now I suppose, for the Left to do to you and make you do what they’ve always demanded they be able to do to you and make you do. It was the conjured fantasy to explain delivery all of the Left’s wish list.
I hope I’m not being the first one to bring bad news here…
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SC Mike| 10.16.10 @ 9:21PM
I truly do believe that the man-made warming theory is as real as Santa Clause…
Rahall may have inadvertently been much too honest. Would it not be extraordinarily rude to shout “There is no Santa Claus” at a crowded Macy’s in December? Why ruin children’s innocent belief in a fictional phenomenon representing all that is good? Is it not better that adults maintain the fiction of Santa’s existence and annual ride all over the world to deliver gifts to the nice and a lump of coal to the naughty?
Rahall is surely weaponless in any battle of wits, no?
Curse you, Horner, I have burned in my brain a disturbing image of Al Gore as an elf, and it’s not pretty.
Tim the Enchanter| 10.17.10 @ 12:50AM
Was it anything like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtwVgOmPNPE
Margie| 10.16.10 @ 9:51PM
Global Warming~ the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.
Texas Mom 2010| 10.18.10 @ 9:02AM
Margie,
Try this:
Global warming, the gift that keeps on taking
Or the gift that keeps on taxing
Or the gift that keeps being renamed
Andrew| 10.17.10 @ 7:45AM
As one of the denialists who have been denying evidence of Santa Claus for many years, I can seriously say that the evidence for man-made global warming is much stronger than the evidence for the existence of Santa Claus. In other words, if there really were a Santa Claus, he would have reasonable grounds to take swimming lessons.
But the claims of cataclysmic man-made global warming sure would be more plausible if those making the claims were willing to support the most obvious short-term response: building lots of nuclear power plants. Instead we get windmills in our stockings.
Texas Mom 2012 | 10.18.10 @ 9:05AM
Amen!
And the biggest proclaimer shouting about the 'climate crisis' buys a multi-million dollar mansion on the California coast! So it is obvious to anyone that Gore doesn't believe that the oceans will rise in his lifetime!
JimH| 10.17.10 @ 8:55AM
This is a critical problem. if global warming is real Santa and his operations are in danger. He may have to shift to the south pole.
Margie| 10.17.10 @ 11:19PM
That's right. And can reindeer swim? Because according to the "experts" the ice caps are melting and are going to flood the earth. They'd better start teaching those poor dears to water ski.
Texas Mom 2012| 10.18.10 @ 9:07AM
Not to worry dear, the reindeer can FLY Santa somewhere safe!
Mad Hatter| 10.18.10 @ 9:36AM
New candidates think Warming proof is so-so,
But to Dems like Rahal it's a no-no.
But we believe no more,
In Mann, Jones and Gore,
We look at them and say, "Ho!" and "Ho! Ho!"
Mad Hatter| 10.18.10 @ 9:44AM
The science of Climate Change may give us pause,
But Rahall and friends insist we need new laws.
Our conscience Jiminy,
Says, "Too smoky chimney!
You need to leave that chute for Santa Claus!"
Tim| 10.18.10 @ 12:34PM
Dear 2011 Republican Majority:
Would it be too much to ask that you keep the incandescent light bulb legal after January 1, 2012?